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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 12:37:43 GMT
New season from Sonia Friedman Productions at The Ambassadors sfpattheambassadors.com/"SFP are committed to presenting original, vital, small-scale work that demands to be seen by a wider audience." - sounds similar to the original idea for the arbortive Sondheim Theatre plans. First production is a transfer of "Baby Reindeer" Pricing has been kept reasonable for this - top price £50, seats at the back of the stalls for £15. |
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Post by zahidf on Jan 22, 2020 13:47:54 GMT
Great play to start it off
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Post by Rory on Jan 22, 2020 13:54:45 GMT
Wow - fabulous.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 14:52:56 GMT
Pricing has been kept reasonable for this - top price £50, seats at the back of the stalls for £15. The play is only an hour long thou so pretty expensive! |
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Post by talkingheads on Jan 22, 2020 21:28:53 GMT
I saw Baby Reindeer in Edinburgh and it is an astonishing show. I am in awe of how he does it every night.
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Post by drmaplewood on Jan 22, 2020 22:14:05 GMT
Absolutely loved Baby Reindeer at the Bush, glad it’s transferring but yes a shame it’s not doubling up with something else.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 22, 2020 22:53:19 GMT
Pricing has been kept reasonable for this - top price £50, seats at the back of the stalls for £15. The play is only an hour long thou so pretty expensive! We keep equating quality with quantity. I have paid £50 for some lavishly produced, hugely cast and very long shows which have made me want to gouge my eyes out. I don't remember anyone whinging about the running time of Constellations vs the pricing, nor for the current mega smash of Six. If this play is as incredible as I'm hearing it is, then £50 is FINE. |
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Post by showgirl on Jan 23, 2020 5:50:18 GMT
I don't think that people who comment on price viz-a-viz duration are necessarily equating quality with quantity and it seems to me a perfectly reasonable objection. We don't all have the same budget and I wouldn't pay £50 for anything, however brilliant. If I want to see something, I will pay whatever I need to book a decent seat at an affordable price but anything above £30 would have to be really special and £40 is probably my personal maximum.
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Post by Jan on Jan 23, 2020 8:25:27 GMT
I don't think that people who comment on price viz-a-viz duration are necessarily equating quality with quantity and it seems to me a perfectly reasonable objection. We don't all have the same budget and I wouldn't pay £50 for anything, however brilliant. If I want to see something, I will pay whatever I need to book a decent seat at an affordable price but anything above £30 would have to be really special and £40 is probably my personal maximum. A more direct objection to the price is that it's £50 for a one-man show. |
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Post by zahidf on Jan 23, 2020 8:37:34 GMT
There have been pricey monologue shows in the west before (fleabag for one!)
West end premium, and there are cheaper tickets around for the show anyway
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 8:44:49 GMT
The play is only an hour long thou so pretty expensive! We keep equating quality with quantity. I have paid £50 for some lavishly produced, hugely cast and very long shows which have made me want to gouge my eyes out. I don't remember anyone whinging about the running time of Constellations vs the pricing, nor for the current mega smash of Six. If this play is as incredible as I'm hearing it is, then £50 is FINE. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED Monkey See Monkey Do and well looking forward to this albeit hopefully at Brighton or Edinburgh fringe where it’s gonna be way WAY cheaper. Just had a look and Women in Black best tickets are only £5 more expensive and u get at least double the cast, double the length and some nice effects chucked in (alas no tap number thou) |
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Post by Steve on Jan 23, 2020 9:25:01 GMT
We keep equating quality with quantity. I have paid £50 for some lavishly produced, hugely cast and very long shows which have made me want to gouge my eyes out. I don't remember anyone whinging about the running time of Constellations vs the pricing, nor for the current mega smash of Six. If this play is as incredible as I'm hearing it is, then £50 is FINE. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED Monkey See Monkey Do and well looking forward to this albeit hopefully at Brighton or Edinburgh fringe where it’s gonna be way WAY cheaper. Just had a look and Women in Black best tickets are only £5 more expensive and u get at least double the cast, double the length and some nice effects chucked in (alas no tap number thou) While I loved "Baby Reindeer" (about a stalker), "Monkey See Monkey Do" (about abuse, which won the Edinburgh Comedy Award) moved me more because it was so SO personal.
Since both shows are an hour, and since, as I recall from "Baby Reindeer," the stalker attended "Monkey See Monkey Do," he could do one, have an interval, then do the other. That would really give the Ambassadors show a unique selling point, to get both terrific acclaimed shows in one go!
On the other hand, I'm not sure one man could relive that much hell every night, night after night. . . :0
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 23, 2020 10:03:24 GMT
Just had a look and Women in Black best tickets are only £5 more expensive and u get at least double the cast, double the length and some nice effects chucked in (alas no tap number thou) it's also been running for over 30 years and recouped probably 30 years ago. Whereas this show is brand new and running in the West End for a month. The £50 top price at Baby Reindeer is a tiny handful of seats which come with a drink included. Regular top price, no added extra is £45 and I don't see any premium seats for it anywhere. Woman in Black has a top price of £57.50 and premium seats at £72.50. A more direct objection to the price is that it's £50 for a one-man show. Again, it's £45 top price for a seat with no added extras and also, what does it matter that it's a one man show? Shirley Valentine, Cocktail Sticks, Fleabag, Via Dolorosa, Ian McKellen On Stage, The Year of Magical Thinking and so on and so on. The west end has a long history of charging the same price for monologue shows as it does for other plays, so why are we whining that this show comes along and charges less? |
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Post by Jan on Jan 23, 2020 10:20:32 GMT
Because when you charge the same price for a monologue show as for a show with a much bigger cast then it seems odd. Also personally I think that just because something has always been done in a particular way it isn't a justification for that continuing in perpetuity. To me this looks like an example of the current West End pricing strategy of going in with a very high price to try to get a few people to pay that but with every intention of heavily discounting later, it is a somewhat dubious practice because I think with a lower starting price they might sell more overall. |
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 24, 2020 8:39:55 GMT
Because when you charge the same price for a monologue show as for a show with a much bigger cast then it seems odd. Also personally I think that just because something has always been done in a particular way it isn't a justification for that continuing in perpetuity. To me this looks like an example of the current West End pricing strategy of going in with a very high price to try to get a few people to pay that but with every intention of heavily discounting later, it is a somewhat dubious practice because I think with a lower starting price they might sell more overall. And yet I don't recall a show ever being priced according to its cast, production values or running time. Here we have a hugely acclaimed hour long monologue getting a month long west end run at significantly lower than usual prices for a west end show, yet all we can do on this board is moan? The 2 hander Kunene & The King is on before this, is 96 minutes long and has tickets ranging up to almost double what Baby Reindeer is charging for a basic top price ticket. If you're going to start grading on a curve, you can't start here. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 9:58:03 GMT
There are more seats in the stalls at £15 and £25 than there are at £50.
Anyway ... odd thing about this is there are no matinees as far as I can see - for two day performances they are at 7pm and 9:30.
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Post by popcultureboy on Jan 26, 2020 23:23:07 GMT
That makes total sense, it's really not a Wednesday at 2:30pm kind of a show.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2020 10:55:19 GMT
There are more seats in the stalls at £15 and £25 than there are at £50 There are 11 seats £15, 10 at £50 Vast majority of the house is £45 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 6:59:44 GMT
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Post by talkingheads on Feb 5, 2020 12:05:50 GMT
Now that sounds fascinating, instantly booked for this! |
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Post by barelyathletic on Feb 5, 2020 12:37:06 GMT
Saw this in Edinburgh last year and really enjoyed it. It's well written and acted. Ian Shaw looks and sounds astonishingly like his father, and Liam Murray Scott and Duncan Henderson are really convincing as Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider. As a look a behind the scenes it's a real treat if you are a fan of the film. And it's an entertaining take on Hollywood egos, male friendship and working relationships. Recommended. |
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Post by Dave B on Apr 30, 2021 12:47:27 GMT
The SFP newsletter which has just come out now lists THE SHARK IS BROKEN and OEDIPUS by Robert Icke as coming soon.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2021 21:22:47 GMT
Any chance Baby Reindeer will get a second chance?
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